Tag: fishing
Government drops ‘salmon tax’ plan
Profitable salmon producers and other fish-farming operations won't have to share more of their wealth with other Norwegians after all. A proposal to raise...
Oslo Fjord ailing as birds die, fish gone
Something is seriously wrong with the Oslo Fjord and no one seems to fully understand why. Both fish and mussels have been disappearing, while...
Fishing firm convicted of exploiting foreign workers
A court in Lofoten, Northern Norway, has convicted a fish processing facility in Finnmark for exploiting 11 workers from Lithuania who were not compensated with...
New theory ties whale to therapy
A white beluga whale that turned up recently in Norwegian waters has neither been trained as a spy nor as an assault weapon, according...
White whale still worries researchers
A white beluga whale bearing harnesses that caught the attention of a Norwegian fishing boat's crew, and later much of the world, has been...
Trawler pulls up dead, decaying body
The crew on board a Norwegian trawler fishing in Arctic waters found a human body snagged in its nets when they pulled them up...
Storm cancelled ‘Skreifiske’
The weather was so bad off the Norwegian coast on Saturday that one of the world's largest fishing contests, Skreifiske, had to be cancelled....
Seafood industry hooks more profits
Seafood producers in Norway will be sailing into the New Year with solid balance sheets, high salaries and, in at least one case, extraordinary...
Missing missile fires up concerns
Norwegian fishing industry and environmental officials were expressing concern Wednesday over reports that a nuclear-powered Russian cruise missile has gone missing in the Barents...
101-year-old catches really big fish
Odd Borlaug goes fishing just about every day during the summer season, but didn't start going after wild salmon until he was 75. On...
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